Ben

Building digital products for newsrooms & publishers.

[Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit 🚀 @lexrodba]

Pieter Levels (@levelsio) has a habit of confidently misreading data and treating anecdotes as evidence 🧵👇

This is what happens when you train your AI and your following base with skewed world views, dodgy studies and huge biases: they amplify your crooked narrative.

[Ben is NOT "jamin" @BenjaminMuses]

Taylor Swift's silence on the PHP CVE is deafening

[Ben @bytebln]

@vanamerongen @VotrubaT @ThePHPF

[Ben @bytebln]

@vanamerongen @VotrubaT @ThePHPF so…. PHP 5.3 is safe? 😅

[Ben @bytebln]

@ThBenkoe @nikitabier Hab die X App auf English, aber bei Deutsch wäre es “Verlauf” und dann swipen bis zum Herzchen :)

Verwirrend weil auf Desktop gibt es keinen “Verlauf”

[HikingSwitzerland @HikingSchweiz]

Today's suggestion for staying cool - take a trip to the Maderanertal and then head up the cable car to the Golzerensee. Perhaps one of the best lakes for a swim in all of Central Switzerland 🇨🇭

[Quinn Nelson @SnazzyLabs]

Notice that they haven’t said Siri won’t continue to be a massive pile of garbage on HomePod.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

Programming was deeply satisfying work to me. Work for hours/days before getting the payoff of the code working well on your machine. I’m feeling so much friction now to open the editor and do this kind of task by hand, but also increasingly depressed with the nature of work in an AI assisted dev workflow. Back and forth prompting seems to eat at my soul. Need to find a balance that brings back some of the toil.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Alright interns, we need to have some real talk here

I am tired of vibing on stream. I dont really like vibe coding unless its a tool i have no desire to build (how i manage things on my stream / how i write my youtube videos are great examples of things i would never build but i have). I dont like vibing the things i care about. I hate the code it generates, i hate the feeling of getting everything i ask for and nothing i want. I hate the subtle offness around vibe coded things. It is just driving me nuts. So for the next while i am going to be done vibing on stream.

I genuinely have been trying my hardest to make this work and i cannot quite put a finger on why i hate it, but i do. And i just feel so horribly guilty and wrong because i am not getting the results of "everyone else on twitter."

How am i, someone who prides themselves on making youtube videos that i think are actually good for people. To make videos that help people laugh at the silliness of tech or learn something new. But here i am not able to keep up with all these people claiming the sky is literally coming down. I just feel horrible and guilty about it.

Now i know the world is changing fast, and i want to be able to understand that change super well, be able to talk about it, be able to give really accurate opinions about it so for the last 3 months i have vibe coded an absurd amount of things. But now... i am just tired of it.

I dont want this any more. I want to be a tradcoder.

I dont know why i told everyone this, but i just have this growing sickness that is just eating me alive around vibing and i dont know how to express it.

You all are fired,

CEO ThePrimeagen

[jameson (big deck energy) @jamesonhaslam]

keep your chin up, king

[Stefan Niggemeier @niggi]

2 Büroplätze in Prenzlauer Berg frei!

Es gibt: nette Kollegen, Küche, Kaffeemaschine, Mikrowelle, Monitor, Drucker, gelegentlich einen freundlichen Hund. Außerdem: Extra-Raum mit Schreibtisch und Sofa für ruhiges (oder lautes) Arbeiten, auch als Podcast-Studio geeignet.

[Ben @bytebln]

@ThBenkoe sieht doch gut aus

[NowMetrix @nowmetrix]

Google is testing the exclusion of journalistic content from Google search results in 9 EU countries. This affects 2.6 Mio users in Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Croatia, the Netherlands, Poland & Spain.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is false, but it might be a good thing if belief in it became moderately widespread, because then all the remaining programmers would be in it for love and not just for money.

[Ben @bytebln]

@MrMooky This one is particularly desperate 😳

https://t.co/5ZwDteLmb0

[Ben @bytebln]

@zebassembly @eastdakota @Cloudflare OMG yes!

[Ben @bytebln]

@pvukovic Agree. I only use it for unimportant stuff. I'd love to switch everything over to Hetzner, but I have around 2 billion requests/month (with some big traffic spikes now and then). I'm just concerned their automatic systems might get triggered and shut down my account.